Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here.
Up to my ass in Fantastic Fest joy, but I wanted to make sure you all got the news that one of my favorite films from last year's Fantastic Fest is readying a sequel, also directed by the nicest sicko I've had the pleasure of meeting, Tom Six.
According to Six, this film will involve a 12-headed creation, with an almost entirely British cast (good, keep him out of the States, thank you). Apparently, casting was much easier for him this time around. I guess the Brits appreciate ass-to-mouth more than other nationalities. If you go to this IFC site, you can also read a fun interview with Six about making HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 and watch the teaser trailer, which seems to imply there's a new bad guy this time around, somebody named "Martin, the sickest bastard of them all." Or you can just watch it here:

completely devoid of any worth whatsoever. Nothing. It doesn't need to not exist because it's crap, but because it doesn't add or even detract from the cultural or media landscape it sits in. Catwoman has more worth than this film.

...Human Centipede would have been the most fucked up thing I've ever seen. And that alone would qualify it as a horror classic. Nowadays, the internet has desensitized everyone (well, me). A few hours spent on theync site and I've seen enough real life horror to last a lifetime. All the accidents victims, beheadings, and bodies pulled from the river I can handle. Note to self.... Never commit suicide by putting a gun under your chin. Apparently--as evidenced by medical footage--you can blow your face off and still be alive. *shudder*

... and it only serves to make me hate the first one even more. This guy is the douchiest douche since Seth McFarlane. The thing is, when I first saw Human Centipede, I didn't think it was a terrible movie. Hell, the scene with the creepy German guy laughing manically and making out with himself in the mirror was fucking awesome. In fact, said creepy German guy was the only thing that made it watchable. But looking at this douche waste three minutes talking about how awesome he is just makes me hate everything. I mean... if you're looking for a reason to just stop watching movies altogether, this teaser should do it.

... but I'd like to think that the directors of many of the horror classics set out to make a 'good movie'. Tom Six, here, says he wants to make a 'sick movie'. That's a red flag if you ask me. The objective should be good storytelling first... then add the horror elements. To sacrifice a solid narrative for the sake of making 'the sickest movie of all time' is the sign of a shitty filmmaker.

am I the only one who gets a self-loathing hatred of stuff that's actually GOOD from that environment and the people in it? It's like even when they say, "Hey, we can be fun and exploitive too!" they fuck that up too and completely miss the point of what makes a good genre film. It's like this weird, passive-aggressive, wannabe intellectual vibe with no cinematic taste whatsoever, and if you call them out on the choices made at these festivals then you're just a whiner. And I honestly do not think it was this bad even as little as four or five years ago... it just seems that the people in charge in the indie world have even worst taste and more corrupt standards than the studios do... at least studios look at what works, for the most part, for an audience and then try to copy that ad nauseum. The indie world is like 'through the looking glass'... reason and artistic sense have no purpose there.

...on the first movie, which I get, but I think we need to focus even more on how terrible this teaser is. Wow. Making it all about the director. The random and not at all creepy walk through a parking garage. The narration which is poorly delivered and poorly written. The incredibly bad hyperbole for the first movie...even if a teaser for a sequel to a good movie played up the first movie as "one of the...movies of all time," I'd be turned off. The anti-climatic non-reveal at the end of Martin, the newest villain. I'm not sure if I can say a single positive remark about this teaser. I don't even hate the first movie. They are making me want to.

I guess this guy is trying to beat Eli Roth for the biggest head up his own ass award. Roth was cool till he started spouting off about how fuckin cool he was. Eli took 2 films to get to the level of I'm right, all you other fucks are wrong. This guy seems to have pulled it off after just one flick... <p> Wait... maybe he is the new Richard Kelly.

So few people have ever been allowed to produce a movie based upon their own personal sick, twisted and depraved sexual fantasy. And Tom Six now has 2 of them. The fall of Western Civilization continues...

Mostly because of how over-the-top Dieter Lazer! was, but Jesus Christ, was this designed to make me NOT want to see the sequel?<BR><BR>And I completely agree with whoever it was who said that "A Serbian Film" was the sickest movie ever made. "Human Centipede" didn't even come close in that department. It just felt like the director putting his fetishes into a movie. Without Mantrid, it would've sucked.

Excrement + a game of Twister = a horror classic? Let's open the floodgates of pre-Internet films that were panned sans fanboy hyperbole. Yes, BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA, a sort of precursor to THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE. If any surviving actors phone Harry, BROOKLYN GORILLA will draw 5 positive talkbacks ("If you loved THE LAST EXORCISM...").

Really..why? Serbian Film, this load of shit, the first Human Centipede film...what is wrong with you guys? I mean, don't you have any kind of standards you go by? Is it just, "give me a movie that has a fucked up concept and exists just for pure shock value, regardless of any kind of skill or competence involved in making it" , and you guys are on board?? Really...what has happened here? Why even waste the cyberspace used on promoting this kind of garbage? Someone really needs to sit back and rationally figure out what has happened to this site, which, once long ago, actually was cool. Now it's just a shill tool for the worst movies being made today. Kick Ass. Case closed.